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Nov 4, 2023
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Nov 4, 2023
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Judith May Fathallah
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Killer Fandom is the first long-form treatment of serial killer fandom. Fan studies have mostly ignored this most moralized form of fandom, as a stigmatized Bad Other in implicit tension with the field’s successful campaign to recuperate the broader fan category. Yet serial killer fandom, as Judith May Fathallah shows in the book, can be usefully studied with many of the field’s leading analytic frameworks. After tracing the pre-digital history of fans, mediated celebrity, and killers,...
Topics: media studies, popular culture, serial killers, fan studies, true crime
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Jul 31, 2023
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Jul 31, 2023
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Dominique Trudel,Juliette De Maeyer
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The American journalist Franklin Ford (1849–1918) is remembered for his ambitious (and stillborn) Thought News periodical, hatched with philosopher John Dewey. The Franklin Ford Collection, curated and introduced by Dominique Trudel and Juliette De Maeyer, takes in the full shambolic spread of Ford's thought, across news, politics, education, finance, and society at large. The collection includes nineteen documents—letters, leaflets, editorials, and treatises—with critical annotations...
Topics: journalism, communication theory, pragmatism
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Feb 26, 2023
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Feb 26, 2023
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Larry Gross
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Before arriving in the field of communication, Larry Gross was a psychology student at Brandeis University; Creativity: Process and Personality was Gross’s undergraduate thesis at Brandeis, completed in 1964. This mediastudies.press edition is the initial publication of that undergraduate thesis, with a new preface by Gross himself. Creativity: Process and Personality finds Gross exploring the nature of creativity by interviewing some of the era’s most noteworthy experts in psychology,...
Topics: history of psychology, creativity, history of social science
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Apr 6, 2022
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Apr 6, 2022
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Sue Curry Jansen
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When it was originally published in 2002, Sue Curry Jansen’s “What Was Artificial Intelligence?” attracted little notice. The long essay was published as a chapter in Jansen’s Critical Communication Theory , a book whose wisdom and erudition failed to register across the many fields it addressed. One explanation for the neglect, ironic and telling, is that Jansen’s sheer scope as an intellectual had few competent readers in the communication studies discipline into which she...
Topics: artificial intelligence, ai, machine learning
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Dec 30, 2020
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Dec 30, 2020
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Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974, author
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Published a century ago as the young Walter Lippmann’s fifth book, the slim volume merits a fresh read in our post-truth moment. Republished in this mediastudies.press edition with a new introduction by Sue Curry Jansen.
Topics: journalism, public life, democracy
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Dec 30, 2020
12/20
Dec 30, 2020
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Rorty, James, 1890-1973, author
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“I was an ad-man once,” James Rorty writes in this classic 1934 dissection of the advertising industry. A neglected masterpiece, the book is republished in this mediastudies.press edition with a new introduction by Jefferson Pooley.
Topics: advertising, public relations, marketing, propaganda, media studies
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